UX Nights: UX Research
Date: September 27th, 2018
Details
Come join us! UX nights is a safe place where we talk about user experience and how it affects your life and the work you do.
This week will be focusing on UX Research. The first half will consist of eating and mingling. Then we’ll have three lightning talks by Keren, Andrew, and Sujan that will teach us and inspire us.
Do you have a portfolio or resume you want feedback on? Send it in by Monday September 24th and we’ll find sometime to talk about it privately on Thursday the 27th after the meetup.
Schedule
6:00 - 6:30 Networking and Food
6:30 - 8:00 Lightning Talks
8:00 - 8:30 Hanging Out
Lightning Talks
- Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research: Are You Using the Right Tool for the Job? (by: Keren Toledano)
- Object Oriented UX (by: Andrew Croce)
- Design Systems — Lessons Learned (by: Sujan Khadgi)
Lighting Talks
Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research: Are You Using the Right Tool for the Job?
by: Keren Toledano
Almost anything can be measured. Your website’s usability, the success of an app, the value of your business card, your advertisement’s efficacy, or the engagement of your customers. Everything can be researched. Studies suggest that for every one dollar that is invested in user experience, it can bring up to one hundred dollars in return. But there are hundreds of research methods! How do you know which to use? How do you quantify “fuzzy things” like feelings? How do you choose what to measure, when to measure it, and how to analyze the results? When can research do more harm than good? Lots of questions to explore during this overview!
Object Oriented UX
by: Andrew Croce
Andrew will discuss the principles of Object Orientation and the process of object mapping in UX design research and discovery, and how it can help create convergence and understanding for both users and development teams in complex product domains.
Design Systems — Lessons Learned
by: Sujan Khadgi
This talk will be a briefly cover the following:
- What is a design system and why should you care about it?
- What tools or platforms are out there to create your own design system?
- Maintenance and governance of a design system
About our Speakers
Keren Toledano
Keren is a User Experience Design Lead at Think Company. She has worked across applications and websites for clients including Netflix, The Moth, Comcast, Baume et Mercier, and The Olympic Games. She believes very strongly in liberal arts majors working in tech—that algorithms, interfaces and most digital advances present social challenges that need critical thinking about their human context. A lover of dystopian fiction, museums, video games (RPGs), movie soundtracks, strolling aimlessly, and reuniting our Left Brains and Right Brains, Keren is always working on her next side project.
Website: http://www.kerenveisblatttoledano.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerenveisblatttoledano
Andrew Croce
Andrew is a UX designer and UI engineer at PromptWorks and is an advocate for accessibility techniques in software. He believes in providing standard, streamlined UI development patterns for applications and systems. When Andrew is not busy building functional User Interfaces, he advocates for underrepresented and misunderstood users. He is the voice in the room that revisits questions that haven’t been considered well enough. Andrew focuses on bridging the gaps between design, business and software. He loves making things… that work… for people.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewcroce/
Sujan Khadgi
Sujan is an Experience Designer at Think Company, an amateur dog petter, and an appreciator of pixel/lego art. When he isn’t pushing pixels, he can be found drawing portraits, checking out the IKEA website a hundred times, or making pixel art.
Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/sujankhadgi
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujankhadgi/
Documentation
Qualitative v. Quantitative
Object Oriented UX
Design Systems